NTSB: Amtrak train sped up before crash

Philly.com ^ | 5/14/2015 | JOSEPH A. GAMBARDELLO & ANTHONY R. WOOD

[NetAddicted]

Right before its fatal derailment on Tuesday night, Amtrak Train 188 accelerated significantly as it approached the Frankford Junction curve, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.

[MNDude]

http://articles.latimes.com/1989-05-26/news/mn-692_1_hartwig-petty-officer-truitt-gun-turret

This is liberal LA Times but it mentions it. I’m sure you can find more

[cripplecreek]

The derailment could have been prevented if the engineer was going the speed limit!

Yup. My car doesn't brake automatically yet I somehow manage to avoid crashing.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

So he tried his luck?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

You need to pick, purple or rainbow your train.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

“Fathter...fathter!”

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

That’s what I get when I don’t proofread.

That was PINK, purple, or rainbow your train.

[Paladin2]

Yep, overhead power.

[A CA Guy]

Truitt and Hartwig had previously been questioned about being gay regarding the USS Iowa turret explosion. Not sure how that turned out.

[Ghost of SVR4]

Was he heard screaming “Anal Akbar”?

[smokingfrog]

Yes. It’s an electric train.

http://history.amtrak.com/archives/testing-the-acs-64-locomotive-no.-601-2013

[cardinal4]

Wasntthat the Iowa?

[MNDude]

That’s it!

[willk]

All the school shootings, greenwings etc have one thing in common:
ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUGS.

All the talk about antidepressants and murder/suicide have two things in common: Scientologists and trial lawyers.

[Veto!]

They are ruhlly ruhlly good at selling real estate.

[XEHRpa]

I think he is referring to the battleship Iowa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion

[IMR 4350]

Inertia.

Try and stop a train in a curve, the train wants to continue in the straight line it was traveling before the curve but the track the train is on isn’t going in a straight line so the train now wants to go sideways.

[Veto!]

official nervously replies “of course he doesn’t have to talk to us, we can get information from others”. What the hell kind of statement is that

Cautious, He doesn't want to tell everything he knows, plus he doesn't want to jeopardize whatever case they make nor risk a lawsuit down the road.

[golux]

I am neither a “Scientologist,” trial lawyer, nor wrong... Starting with Columbine. Even the 9/11 attackers were on “Wellbutrin,” an antidepressant. Don’t insult yourself sonny and keep poppin’ ‘em and never mind little old me! Return to this thread when they report that the only drug in the man’s blood was a “harmless antidepressent, a low dose, and as aforementioned, shown to be completely harmless...”

[smokingfrog]

The windshield was cracked but still intact after the crash.

[dynachrome]

“Little green footballs” blogger guy? I hadn’t checked out Gotnews before. seems to be a wild and wooly cross of smoking gun and drudge.